Molly Ivins Quotes
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
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We shouldn't overdramatize the current disagreements with the Russians. They are real, but they're not really all that threatening. And the notion that we're moving back to some Cold War I think is really an exaggerated judgment.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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We still don't know the facts. Prosecutors are looking into it, but it's hard to comment.
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A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone
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I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.
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The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to take it down. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.
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I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.
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I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
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I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.
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Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.
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Like anybody else, athletes like to pig out on a bit of junk food every now and then, but they also know that they couldn't do that all the time if they wanted to keep their body in peak condition to compete at the highest level.
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They’re not fat pigs; we’re mad scientists.
